Harvard Graduate School of Education

Harvard Graduate School of Education
Cambridge, MA
What Does Good Work Look Like?
Ron Berger
March 3, 2005
01:17:47
Educator Ron Berger lectures on the study and research of student work, and how to improve the work produced by students by giving them models to to base their own works from. Ron Berger served as a public school teacher in western Massachusetts for 25 years.
Passionate Teacher, Passionate Learner
Robert Fried
February 7, 2002
00:59:18
Robert Fried suggests that every teacher could be a passionate teacher, one who engages young people in the excitement of learning and ideas, if teaching were not being undermined by the ways we "do business" in schools.
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Louis Menand: Pragmatism's Three Moments
Louis Menand
February 12, 2004
01:02:06
Louis Menand lectures on pragmatism, a distinctly American philosophy based on experience and experiment rather than fixed principles.
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Another World: Alternative Ways to Globalization
Noam Chomsky
February 28, 2003
01:59:59
Panelists explore alternative and constructive pathways to globalization in "Another World Is Possible", the culminating forum of the Student Research Conference.
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Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson
Gore Vidal
November 20, 2003
00:58:14
In his latest book, Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Gore Vidal takes readers behind the scenes as America's founding fathers fought and worked to create a new country.
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Chinese in America: A Narrative History
Iris Chang
May 1, 2003
01:23:29
Iris Chang, author of Thread of the Silkworm and The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, an account of Japanese war crimes in Nanking, China, speaks about her latest book, The Chinese in America: A Narrative History.
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W.B. Yeats: The Arch-Poet
Roy Foster
December 10, 2003
01:10:50
Roy Foster speaks about the final volume in his acclaimed biography W.B. Yeats, A Life, Volume II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939. Roy Fosteris the Carroll professor of Irish history at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Hartford College.